Implementing cent/ucent...

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 15:55:24 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> I started to work on cent/ucent support in LDC (and possible in 
> upstream DMD). Here is the current state:

Hi, I appreciate all the work you're doing for LDC, but isn't 
ucent better implemented as a library type (e.g. as a FixNum 
struct for arbitrary fixed-size integers)? With the 
deprecation/removal of complex numbers, octal literals, and hex 
strings, I'm not sure if cent/ucent would pass the same inclusion 
requirements that those features didn't.

This doesn't necessarily obsolete your work - we could remove 
ucent from the language specification, but still expose the 
backend feature in some way that FixNum could use for added 
efficiency.

If there's already been a discussion about removing cent/ucent 
and I missed it, my apologies.